Nineteen dispatches from the war's last two years, told by the people who were there — a destroyer officer's diary, Pershing's own report, the raid on Zeebrugge, the fighting Czecho-Slovaks — ending with the Armistice terms and the treaties that redrew the map.
About the Book
1919Published
Francis J. Reynolds (ed.)Author
19Dispatches
215Pages on this site
World's War Events collected first-hand accounts of the Great War as it happened, and Volume III carries the story from the first American destroyers sailing for European waters in April 1917 to the treaties of peace signed in 1919.
The writers are participants, not historians: an anonymous American destroyer officer keeping a diary, General Jan Smuts on the East Africa campaign, Abé Félix Klein among the wounded of France, Corporal H. J. Burbach's six days on the firing line, and General Pershing and Admiral Mayo reporting on the American army and navy in Europe.
The closing documents — the Armistice terms, the Covenant of the League of Nations, and the summaries of the treaties with Germany and Austria — are printed as the 1919 reader first met them.
This digital edition presents the complete keyed text of the 1919 edition, dispatch by dispatch.
This site reproduces the complete text of the original 1919 edition, digitized page by page from the original printing. The book is in the public domain.